Christ is Risen, He is risen Indeed! As we gather in our churches on Easter Sunday, as believers we celebrate the most central belief of our faith that after Jesus died on the cross and was buried, he rose again just like He said He would! Of course, as believers, we not only celebrate this one Sunday of the year, but we celebrate every day of our lives. I am praying that as we celebrate the resurrection, those who attend our churches who have not placed their faith and trust in Jesus, will hear the Gospel preached and they will give their lives to Christ. I pray for believers as they attend that they will be encouraged and renewed by realizing that our hope is in Christ and His resurrection. This very fact ought to help us live out our Christian life with zeal and passion for helping others to know that we serve a Risen Savior and that He desires a relationship with everyone. May God be glorified and may He move in our hearts and change the hearts of many who do not know Him!

We are going to have our third annual golf tournament on April 15^th at the Georgia Veterans State Park. The funds from this tournament will go toward our camp fund. If you have people who play golf in your churches, please encourage them to sign up to play in the tournament. We are also asking for churches and even individuals to sponsor holes for the tournament. Every church or individual who sponsors will have their name placed on a sign that will be displayed at the different holes on the golf course. Please help us by supporting this tournament.

Many of our churches are aware of our evangelism trailer and have been using it. I am excited to tell you that we now have an inflatable slide (not a water slide). It was bought and donated by one of the members of Penia Baptist Church. If you have evangelistic outreach events and would like to use the trailer, please call our association office to reserve it. At this point, we now have two inflatables (a bouncy house & slide), a snow cone machine, and a popcorn machine. We hope our churches will use this resource.

Our children’s camps are coming soon. We now have applications on our website at: www.southcentralbaptistnetwork.org. We now have a separate application for our day camp. The overnight camps are on one application. Please make plans to send your children to our camps. We are anticipating having some great camps again this year. We are also in need of youth and adults to serve at our camps. The Camp Missionary application is on our website as well. Please be in prayer now for our camps. This has been one ministry that most of our churches have supported throughout the years.

It is a joy to serve you and please know that I am always available to assist your church in any way I can. I would love to come and lead your church in Sunday School training, strategy planning, missions planning, and discipleship training. I am praying daily for our Pastors and our congregations. I am truly blessed to serve you!

Bro. Gary

Please call the SCBN office at 229-273-4127 to pre-register to play and to let us know if you are willing to sponsor a hole.

June 11-14, 2023 

Crisp County has a Christian Learning Center! This center represents a form of instruction known as "release time education". Upon completion of each course, the student will receive appropriate course credit according to school requirements. It is the desire of the Christian learning center that each student be given the education in character studies, historical context, and moral reasoning using the Bible and Christian doctrine as the foundation to ensure that each student is educated in a way that their uniqueness is embraced, and their success is promoted with the understanding that they are valued as a Creation of God. We currently have 43 students in the 7th and 8th grades that are enrolled in classes this semester. We have had over 100 students in the past four years to take classes. The Center classroom is located at Pinecrest Baptist Church. The current administrator and teacher is Jean Johnson. We are asking for churches and individuals to be committed to financially supporting this center. Would you consider making a monthly contribution? If so, please send checks to SCBN, PO Box 1274 Cordele, GA 31010. Your support would be greatly appreciated as many lives are being impacted by our C4 Christian Learning Center!